Ooooh, the colors!

[sethgray]

Yes, as you can see, I have found a new theme. As the title box says, my new journal name is not a reference to Andais, the queen of the Unseelie courts in Laurell K Hamilton's amazing series of books. This is a reference to Morgause, sister of Arthur and Morgaine in Arthurian legend. If you can't make the connection than you need to read more classics.

*coughoughONCEANDFUTUREKINGcoughcough*

Besides that, it's just meant to be ironic because, ya know, gay.

Comments

[philippos42.livejournal.com]

Doesn't the term go back further, maybe to Spenser?

I don't know for certain, I just know that a friend of mine put a sorceress called, "The Queen of Air & Darkness," in one of his fantasy games.

Oddly, she was not in the same faction as Queen Mab, but in a faction with a bunch of centaurs, satyrs, & minotaurs.

[jupiterrhode.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm not sure. All I know is that originally T.H. White was going to title the section that introduces Morgause, her sons, and the incest The Witch in the Woods but later changed it to the Queen of Air and Darkness, referring to her sorceric powers. If the term has earlier usage I'm not aware of it.

[jupiterrhode.livejournal.com]

Oh, it finally clicked what you were talking about with Spenser.

As far as I know, Spenser doesn't use the term Queen of Air and Darkness in his work the Faerie Queene. His Queene Gloriana is all about majesty and glory, and I doubt he would use "darkness" to refer to her. (He did write it as an allegory for Queen Elizabeth after all). I haven't read the whole thing, yet, however, so for all I know you could be right. But I don't think so.